brown recluse

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Is This Flesh-Eating Spider Living in Your City?

DB @dgobucks226 (37621) 18 Nov 22

Spiders are not just creepy on Halloween, but anytime, especially if you spot one in your home. And if you live in certain states in the U.S., they just got a lot scarier! The Brown recluse spider (Loxosceles reclusa) is native...

interesting facts

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Grasshoppers are supposed to jump.

marguicha @marguicha (230350) • Chile 22 Nov 16

A little while ago I was thinking about going to bed. It is midnight and bed is calling me. As I turned on the lights, I saw a bug moving near the big glass door (the one I call the window for earthquakes). I checked (no...

grasshopper in disguise

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It is better to have light floors.

marguicha @marguicha (230350) • Chile 30 Jun 16

Tonight, as I was taking my laptop from the dining room where I use it during the day to my room, I saw with one eye a black (or was it brown?) mass moving. My eyes focused on the light floating floor, my left leg went up and my...

killing spiders

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Now I know Why I Kill Spiders……

Ann LeFlore @poehere (15123) • French Polynesia 25 Oct 15

Not long ago I was helping my niece do some research for a school project. She had to write a report about spiders. I know we have a lot of spiders here on the islands that are harmless. I sometime joke around with the kids about...

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Do we ever really totally grow up?

celticeagle @celticeagle (189915) • Boise, Idaho 13 Oct 11

Well, I went through many a discussion interest and decided on this one. I think I really need to grow up. I have a childish fear. What of you might ask? Spiders!! Just the word sends shivers up and down my spine. It started...

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A paraplecic, A spider bite and a Jail cell

Impervious @Impervious (1147) • United States 20 Mar 09

I am guessing that some of you have heard the story of the man who was a paraplegic for twenty years. Then after being by a brown recluse spider has regained the use of his legs. The guys spent a few days in the hospital and...

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MRSA-- The Spider Bite that lead to MRSA which went undetected for six months.

pimpsterque999 @pimpsterque999 (227) • United States 22 Nov 07

JANUARY 21st 2007 I had gone to my aunts house and somehow got bitten by a brown recluse. I read about them previously and even recieved emails about them but never thought it could happen to me. So its sunday night and i get a...

Any spider experts here?

dollbaby @dollbaby (595) • United States 28 Oct 06

I am terrified of spiders and found this huge one on my porch this morning. Can anyone tell me if it's a brown recluse? Not the best pic but I'm hoping you can see enough to say. My husband said that it had"fangs".

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